| Show William McKinley Q j 1 d A Talk With Ohios Govornor About Hlmsolr and P ubllo I 1 1 Motions i j How Ikt Great nttttityt Looks Mi anj Mkt lllt Vnltl ai Gtntxtr a OMo and Hit PttnitHl QtMtrlinllw III Trials htlUtalM tttomtn It I Hit Canlifn amt Hit IhnMr llt Itlttttl fa KtHfiM ail lams MaMa I f Jut lmittA Lftk tl Hit Ktrlkplutlh Sit Milt VII AW ltIy t wed AMui 1N Ns3 Mnlttfttf Oat < fPM L1fiHt Talks of ln a1 rinl ntlff Sfttet Dlintut tin OnnHHm if Ikt fin said Ottor j 1 Mtllin I = eYrwlpsatrlwe lealf Naes COLUMIIUH Ohio Jan lo 11941 I line come to Columbia from Washing ion to give you a letter alx > ui Governor McKlntey lie It I today one of the molt Interesting character In the United 1 State We are n nation ol hero wor 4 thlpers and each of our great portico hat to have in demigod McKinley U F the demigod of the Republican party a He fill the niche where stood Garfield f and Maine and 1114 worshiper hope to a elevate filmy to the White HOUK 1 film-y have no doubt but that the gray matter under liii black Mr U permeated with the retldentlal Itch butt I have looked Y Iv In vain to find any evidence of the p disease In his face or hu surrounding 11 110 has the tame clear brunette com plttlon which he maintained under the I malarial Influence of Washington Ills t M eyes arejust u bright nail there U no austerity or snobbishness In his manner 1 He leads much the same lib that he I did while he was In Coiicrcu tie lineal line-al a hotel unit walks like an ordinary I citlten every morning to his office lie I upends Ills day In attending to the duties of hit position Mid walks back lo his f hotel at sunset He 1 remains almost the whole time while he Is I not In his office In his rooms at the hotel and his f manner and tastes are of the simplest character He goes to bed early and sleep welt He Is In good physical condition and his mental health seems a to be sound r I Kent over to the slate house this morning to look at his walk shop The Ohio capitol Is I situated In the middle of the city It has a big park about It Jh IIIJ t r and wide atone walk leads I up tolls I front entrance On each side of this walk are now big ol block of granite from the pedestal F of the Ohio statue at Iho exposition and above these and by 9 the steps of the stale house lie they bronze alatucs which formed that monument y monu-ment Giant figures of Gen Sherman 1 i President Garlield Gen Grant and Chief justice Chose are laid out on their backs h on one side of the walk and on natrousad 1 I the other I onoa great a bronie matron sup used to be the mother the slate lies y on her stomach though she had the a nose bleed and wanted to let the fluid trickle olf Into the letter ever which her i bronze dose rest lasting these you = reach the Hep of the cartel and l goof through a loot row go-of stone pillars up the step Into a gloomy rotunda filled with bad paintings which you Me drmlrl through a dim light f The I whole Mute honsc la solemn and funereal It u built t of brown sand stone I mid It looks like lau prison ll 1 was made by penlten llsry convicts and their sad souls Him lo lave shrouded this great atone I x In gloom and Ohio tosh pus came la help fnn carrying out the Illunlon In the rotunda fur Instance t one wait is given up to a great glaM case filled I wits the flow en that retted on Garflcld catatal line and I other solemn relics hang here and th < re lasting through the rotunda YOU have to go down a gloom corridor to get lo the governor ollice which lit below Irhe do the negro messenger who stands at the door would be worth a fortune at a eunuch or a mute The governor apartmenu consul of two large room TIN I private oflice It finished In mahogany and he doe his work behind a big Hat desk scaled In a mahogany chair on a cushion of drab leather He has his I private I Mcietary on the opposite side of him and there are one or two clerk In the Iron room but looked I In vain to find any literary bureau and I MW no sign of the uctU ity which usually hang about the oflne uf a statesman who Is pulling his wire fur a residential nomination As far all I can learn McKinley Is not a wire puller He has fallli III his destiny des-tiny and he believe that all things come to him who wails He l thljiks that the people lead the politicians tnd here he-re IIUy said that when they laid out a campaign the politicians had to hollow He l believe in the people rather tlun t In organlutlons and 1 think al he el ll tome thing of a fatalist as regards himself He will not talk about his chance at a residential I candidateand he will let no i one else talk with him on the tuljccL HiLkCts liushels uf mail every week I and there are scores of letter now coming I In from politicians all over the I counliy who want lo oKanlia their districts dis-tricts for him hey I say that they did so and to In such a campaign and they can now dose I dlcJ McKlnlcy I Sued letters generally hind Iheir way into the waste basket unless Ihey are Irom personal per-sonal acquaintances or men of undoubted undoub-ted standing 111 the latter caws they are respectfully acknowletgetl but nothing more A great many political adventurers call at the slate house to rev Gov McKinley on Hill subject All are icceUcd for Here t Is no red tape taut the ollice anal I access Is as easy lo Die beggar as to the millionaire I No I encouragement however Is rveiu the a venturers and o far as I r in k I Iii M Kinky has nut yet hud out any a paicn nor planned lh nnv organiMiiun wait 1 a view to 1896 I have made some viols I of him Troth here and at ailllnmon in connection with his 1 treatment men He It I a lair judge of human nature and he usually get a good Insight Into the souls of Ins callers before they leave him U a dons this bv slenmg I rather than by atking questions He Is a g ml HC listener and he lets the men who have InulnoM with him do the most ol the talking In nine case out ol tin they show up their oan characters belure they leave Gov ieKlnley la I aserycaulloes nun He seldom M > a or doe anything without with-out taxing thought the matter over well I i beforehand ifI Is a serloul man as regards public matters and he never jests on the slump lie seldom tell I tlorie while making a slump speech though I he Is a goad story teller I and has = rJet a decldediy humorous side to hi ltA nature I In hit private life he can laugh like a stun R satyr I and lit enjoy the company of his fellow He ha i e5 eclally fond of children and delight In I leaning them and In playing with them Ills tastes are naturally t very domentic and his great oljectlon lo public Ito I life It that it Obl II mlor nas I roblied him ol hit home H < t hat to live m it were In a trunk and his book are atoned away It II I not generally known that Gov McKinley pus a religious tide lo hula nature na-ture lie has nothing hi do with the InAdellly and free thought uf the age 11e 1 believe In IheChrmuti religion I and i I Is a member of the Methodist Church He never uy anything ajsnut religion even in jest He only nay that It is a mystery to him when he cannot ei I plain but In which I he has Implicit I faith Not long ago he said that the greatest i men of our Intiury had been bellmen I and though he never Carrie his religion on hla sleeve I Imaglno he rather tJw ple those who try lo make thtinwlvet notorious by their disbelief He Is I hr ndll tI MIIT IT am oseep fund of the Melhodlsl hi mm and he olten hums them laser lo himself while he Is I at work He is I A pure nun In thought and a pure man In rlurII fln1rre lin language Hi closest friends tell me that they have never heard him tell a itory nor utter an cnurcuion which could not be repeated I m the presence of i ladies I One of the mnsi remarkable feature of Guv McKinley private life Is hub devotion to his wife She Iwo been you know a great Invalid and she Is f not tour day well He I has spent I every momeol lr of hit leisure fur years h > her slate and I today he gives every spar hour to her I Her l tile u wrapped up In lilt and she cannot bear to hate him away from her for any length of lime I She lives wild I him I here at the Neil I lout and the governor court her as ardently as he did In al the first days etof1II honeymoon U Inn she U sick he nurse her and she has been of great assistance to him In work Speaking of McKinley health he Is nun of wonderful staying power He can travel 1 Irons one end of a campaign to the oilier without tiring and ass rule ho uses up all his anodal and come out fresh Ho has naturally strong conslltuilm I His I mother Is silll living JS I at the ae ot eighty I two anal I she nf s strong and healthy Ills father died only a short lima ago at eighty me and lie kept his strength up 11 Ihe last Ills name was William and Gov Me Ktnley I has always signed hlnuclf I W ham McKlnlcr ir Fro Ilhe i first of I I tills year ho ha tlrppd in a Ir and now signs himself plnln William Me i M I t oleti tlr McKinley father was of a It Irlsh descent and hit life at th tUlle McKinley was born was made up ol hard physical labor II I le VM one of the chief men In a furnace or rolling mill at Ml Ohio NtleIIl Is In the min Ing districts of northern Ohio ll Is a town of about 5000 people and during n sisal wbteh It old I to the nhl last year I was shown the house In I which Me Klnley was born It It I a twostory frame and whit was probably the parlor in young McKinley day U now uwil asa as-a grocery store user the front door there It 1 a porch covered with vines and Gov McKinley I f corned out upon this pjrch and makes has itunip speeche s whenever he I com lo Nile I ar found the J people lt of Nile I my prou I ol him 1 f3l 111 Some ol the old I ctllient told mo thai he was a Mack haired dark faced chubby little boy and that he usually went there then as he doe today by the name 01 mfl McKinley I called upon Gov McKinley last night nt his room In the hotel I am topplKj at the same place and I ran eel you that I the governor of Ohio hut a ergs In e swallow tailed coat lo wait uuirlilffl wid without he has more persuasive manner than I hive he has to pay a quarter shame lime u day If he eapeels a Jill me it I II I did not see him I in UK dining room and I supple ho dine with hM family hi his apartments on the second door lie has I a number ol lnrg room here and the on In I which IK received me wise about fifteen feet square and was ordinarily well furnished Its window looked out m the mam business street itt the city and the governor wt In a twinging chair by I the aide of a Are before a h gh roller top tknk which was pushed up against the wall near tlie Indow I te stood up aa i entered and I had t a goad chance lo ce how he look In I tills year of our lord I eighteen hundred and mnrt four He hat grown fleshier since he left Con rost and hit form Is beginning lo aMiuiie whit the French madame would I call rmbmfoM He stands uboul s e < l1ln fib stockings and he weighs I future 115 pound lie Is I a straight broa I shouldered big chested man with 11e 1Ifcl a form and face which have often ustly I been compared to those of Napoleon IIUIIAIO lie Is I hoer tlun was Napoleon Na-poleon but he grow more like him In feature and form as he grow older He does not like the comparison and he once told me he would l kill me If I repeated It concerning him in I the t newspapers Hut the resemblance It to obvious that i I can best describe him by using It Gov McKinley has a very lundsome Lace and a very strung one He look a trifle older than he did six years ago and his but k hair mixed I with gray at the tcmpki and there are a few more sera ou < wrinkle In hls face His I blue eyes however are Mill full of life and when he smiles hit face grows a younger lie I Ie smooth shaven and hit dress at usual was black icJI 1 don thin 1 liavo ever teen Gov McKinley i In anything else than a suit of lack I clothes and he always looks clean and well dressed He wears a sanding collar A black necktie neck-tie and hit only jewelry Is a Kohl I ring on the third finger of hit left hand and l a gold 1 watch chain which runt a rot his vest from one pocket to Ihe oilier The governor It a very pleasant man In hit nunner with his gueils He is accustomed ac-customed to meetli g men and he putt I hit caller at their ease There It no gush about him and he has a dignified rrnuu an snso way asia h as vets helm I luau ml ileiiln I 1 t dkr re 1 wii li n fur perhapt I an flour I He I It I an easy run > vertnl onalist an 1 lus face changes V1 expression at he becomes serlou or the reverie in hit talk During a part of the time nI he I chewed at a bit or a cigar I which hv had taken out of hit pocket and broken of and I wa truck with his earnestness his simplicity and his evident honesty I During Ihe conversation I asked Gov McKinley as to the tendencies of poll li tics 1 Associated as he I has been with all classes of Statesmen at Washington during dur-ing hit term In Congress closely connected con-nected with I the organisation of politic In Ohio and living j today at he does under the shadow ol F nt legbuiure which has been accused several lime of havIng hav-Ing old Its choice of a United Slate Senator It atrork me that he ought lo know sonntlilru of the purity or Impurity 3rlrmo purity of politics and I asked him If it wits not true thai public life was full nf I corruption He replied No It 11 not The profession I if willies Is at pure to day as tint of any profusion In the united Stales and our public men have M high a acme of honor oe any other class of men In the world lake Con grfu I was In the Hiuseof Repreten lallve fourteen yearn and of the Len or 400 tmli with whom 1 was mounted rom year to year dating that time I d 1 < not know one whom I would have dared to approach with a corrupt proportion r I Had I had the motley and the Inclination I Inclina-tion to have bought Cuniirett I da not nee how 1 could have gone about f and I dont bilievn there It I a body of mInI teg slmlve or otherwise on the globe which hat a higher I move of honor than the Congress ol the Unite I State t flame may be corruption and corrupt men among them but I do not know where It exittt lilt it so Polillcs I be these grow purer ai this country grow older nn I tune standard of piilitlcal honor and loUllcal morality Is I higher today than ever before The nod of your life has ben 1 spent In politic I governor aid I VVhat do you think of re politics as a butlnen ould you advise r1 oung mm to adopt public life es a professionr No was lire reply I woull not There Is I no lie I more full of diiamwlnt ment No muter how succewfuf It may be at the mart t It U sure before It 1 come lo tnll end to bring sorrow and grief re I know of no trouble which seems to affect men so much nt that of apparent unappreciaion and ditappo ntcd ambition am-bition lake alookat the careers of the mOlt noted men of our hlitory and you will lnl llnd every one of them full of dUappolntmrnt I Times j change Conditions Con-ditions change And men change The story of the ablest of our statesmen and Ihe mutt famous of our public men runs through the gravcyardtol their own disappointed dis-appointed hope No I would not t advise ad-vise 1 a young man to t make politics t his profculan Looking at the condition of ponies today do not Ihe signs of Ihe time point to the organisation In the future ol a lurty of Ihojtoor against the rich KII I No GovrdlcKlutley i No replied I Gov McKinley there will never be aptrtyof the rich end a arty p I r the t uorIs this I country t If the 1 present state of thing keeps on there can only be a party of the poor for we I will nil be poor What are the causes of the hard time > 1 I think there Is not n doubt but that It Is the uncertainly at regards the tarllf No oeu knows what the Democratic I arty 11 gume India and there lIth be I no tnnnge fur Ot b that times until that manna Iv settled I low I about the Wilton bill I No one know what the > Vdton bill I It I going tube I must tav that it doc not promise well and I Ihe voices which come from the ways and meant com inline room at Vathlngton must be avery a-very unwelcome one to Ihe starving among our people It Is I poor comfort to the 7 ooo Idle miners on Lake Superior Supe-rior to be told that Congress proposes to admit into free competition with them Spanish iron under its clause of free raw materials U doe not tike much thought to tell how such men ould re gnrd this bill and I might go on as to a doien other Item I erone know my ponltlon on that question You ask as to the remedy for the hard times nnd If you want tnv answer t will My In the words fl Mr I Ingalls the I railroad lI presl I dentKick Kick Ihe Wilson tariff bill under l Ihe table and let It stay there My talk with GJV McKinley wit rather In the nature of a running chat that a Axed Intel view The conversation conversa-tion drifted here and there and covered quite a wide range During It I tusked him when he first became Interested In the protective tarOT I lei and when ha made his tint tt speech I upon It He replied re-plied I was brought up as It were on the le obr Aht protective kris gJIw My boyhood I was pent In 01 Peon manufacturing dls tract and among donor and my y iiilii was pant in the minclacturlng district of bark county where the questions ol eSI the lorI I h ave always been living one The first speech I mad in Congress wan mtJe against erntndo I Woods tariff bill I remember thai I ria le the speech at night and the Iron rerlonsl committee thought enough of It to reprint re-print It and I circulate ll as a campaign document The conversation here turned to s neech making and I asked I Guv Mc Kinley as to wliether he wiolu out aunt I committed his l speeches I He I replied I No I do not I think the millers that Ianl I to talk about well uver beforehand and nflir I have pretty Ihoronjhly l t da r settled In my mind I what I am going to say I sometimes call In a stenographer and dictate the speech to him It Is this speech that always goes to the printer It Is by no means the exact speech hat I make on the stump This may bo changed 1 by the occasion though t aI I usually follow the lines laid down In the speeches I dictate I find that I change my tpevchos a great deal during the campaign I IIt seldom repeat the tuna speech In the tame words though of course the matter It I much the wme What Is I Ohio doing tu relieve the unemployed She Is responding nobly to the oc catluD replied the governor Iopu 1 tar charities hvo been organized In all of our towns and cities borne of the cities hive commenced public walk III order to five relief to the unemployed and we are doing nil In our tower tu allay the salt enng and want TKAVW G CARPBNUR |
